tick_nohz_idle_enter(9)

💅 tick_nohz_idle_enter(9) 💅

okay so this is from the Kernel API Manual bestie, and it's genuinely such a little icon — tiny function, big main character energy. let's get into it 🎀

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✨ NAME ✨

tick_nohz_idle_enter — prepare for entering idle on the current CPU 🦋

like, it's the getting-ready montage before the CPU goes to sleep. periodt.

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

void tick_nohz_idle_enter (void );

that's it. that's the whole vibe. void in, void out, no cap ✨

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🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• void — no arguments. literally none. she takes nothing, she gives nothing, she just is 💅

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💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

Called when we start the idle loop. 🫶

okay i know that's short but that's genuinely the whole thing — this is the moment right when the idle loop kicks off, and she's out here getting the current CPU prepped for it. lowkey obsessed with how chill she is about it. no drama, no return value, no parameters, just vibes and preparation 🔥

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👑 SEE ALSO 👑

all the sisters in the family, no cap — these live in the kernel file ./kernel/time/tick-sched.c, and they're all iconic in their own way:

• tick_nohz_update_jiffies(9)
• tick_nohz_next_event(9)
• tick_nohz_idle_stop_tick(9)
• tick_nohz_irq_exit(9)
• tick_nohz_idle_got_tick(9)
• tick_nohz_get_next_hrtimer(9)
• tick_nohz_get_sleep_length(9)
• tick_nohz_get_idle_calls_cpu(9)
• tick_nohz_idle_exit(9)
• tick_nohz_switch_to_nohz(9)
• tick_setup_sched_timer(9)

go read them too, iykyk 💜

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ok that's the whole page bestie, she's short but she ate 🌈

and for the cute sign-off: this lil beauty lives in the ./kernel/time directory, dated October 2026, and we're closing out tick_nohz_idle_enter(9) with a little kiss 😭💖 mwah. bye bestie! 🧚‍♀️🍓